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08/27/2024

12:23 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137: Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Hello Martina,
There is a related issue (# 1177) regarding birth order. You can check the advice given at this li... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/25/2024

11:08 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137: Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Good morning,
I apologize for reaching out again, but I was hoping you could provide further clarification. The sy... Martina Ponassi

08/22/2024

02:22 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2140 (Feedback): Household Interview Date Variables

Hello,
It is not possible to know what % of the interview was conducted on the start date and what % on the end da... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2141: Time-varying weights within the same ID

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/20/2024

08:14 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2141 (New): Time-varying weights within the same ID

Hello,
We are analyzing subjects participating in all waves of BHPS and UKHLS from all the boosts, using the time-... Lydia Palumbo

08/19/2024

11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2136 (In Progress): Weights for multiple imputation in Mplus

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11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2140 (In Progress): Household Interview Date Variables

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2138 (Feedback): Secure data access variables and questions of IEMBS in subsequent waves

You are correct in your understanding of the content of Secure Access dataset. The Abstract for SN 6676 on the UKDS w... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/18/2024

07:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2140 (Feedback): Household Interview Date Variables

Hello,
I wish to merge the household-level data with yearly information on council tax at the local authority level... Vikram Patil

08/16/2024

04:00 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2138 (In Progress): Secure data access variables and questions of IEMBS in subsequent waves

Hi Ilona,
The answer to your second questions is yes. We're still investigating your first question, we'll update ... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/15/2024

11:53 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2139 (Feedback): Social Support Variables - who is inapplicable?

Hi Tassia,
You can find this in the universe (routing) for each of these questions. This information can be found ... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/14/2024

02:18 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2139 (Feedback): Social Support Variables - who is inapplicable?

Hello,
I am looking at the following variables which are related to social support from family, friends, and partn... Tassia Oswald

09:36 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Hi Lydia,
This issue has been resolved, and we typically do not reopen issues unless they are a direct continuatio... Understanding Society User Support Team

09:29 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137: Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Deart Martina,
We recommend using doby_dv - it is a derived variable for which we have run some additional data ch... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/13/2024

04:20 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137: Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Thank you, that is really helpful. I have still one doubt: What if I use birthy instead of doby_dv? What is the diffe... Martina Ponassi

12:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137 (Feedback): Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Hello Martina,
1.
In the file "xwavedat" (when you download the data this file is in the subfolder ukhls), you... Understanding Society User Support Team

02:55 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #1375: XTREG error: weight must be constant within pidp

Hello,
I'm sorry if I'm jumping into this old thread. We are in the exact situation. We are analyzing subjects ... Lydia Palumbo

02:47 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2138 (Feedback): Secure data access variables and questions of IEMBS in subsequent waves

Hi there,
I wanted to double-check which further data is available under the Secure Access level (SN 6676). From t... Ilona Pinter

12:30 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2132 (Feedback): Citizenship

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12:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2134 (Feedback): Cognitive Ability data for users who answered language questions

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08/12/2024

08:19 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2137 (Feedback): Help with Mother's Age and Employment History Variables

Good morning.
As a research assistant, I am currently working on a projects concerning the child penalty of mother... Martina Ponassi

08/07/2024

09:47 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2136: Weights for multiple imputation in Mplus

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon a... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/06/2024

04:24 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2136 (In Progress): Weights for multiple imputation in Mplus

Dear UKHLS team,
I am estimating a latent model in Mplus. I would like to do multiple imputation to fix the patter... Ivelina Hristova

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2135 (Feedback): yplvhm(_bh) and zero values

Hi Lydia,
The youth questionnaire is a paper-and-pencil interview, which increases the likelihood of receiving ans... Understanding Society User Support Team

08/05/2024

03:39 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #2135 (Feedback): yplvhm(_bh) and zero values

Hello,
I am working with the BHPS and UKHLS youth questionnaires. I am dealing with the variable yplvhm(_bh). I n... Lydia Palumbo

08/02/2024

11:46 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131: i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases

Many thanks Piotr Rachel Bennett

11:45 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2131: i_macurr 'inapplicable' cases

Hi Rachel,
A quick update: I can confirm that there might be an issue with the macurr routing, we are investigatin... Understanding Society User Support Team

11:43 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2134: Cognitive Ability data for users who answered language questions

HI Elisabeth,
This happens because cgna_dv and cgvfc_dv are in wave 3 and but other variables are not. I am guessi... Understanding Society User Support Team

10:25 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2134: Cognitive Ability data for users who answered language questions

Hi Piotr
I'm using cgna_dv and cgvfc_dv for cognitive ability and I've tried both kidlang and englang for language... Elisabeth Wallmann

10:15 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #2134: Cognitive Ability data for users who answered language questions

Hi Elisabeth,
Could you please tell us the names of the variables you are tabulating and the wave(s).
Best wish... Understanding Society User Support Team